Volker Schlöndorff
b. 1939 (age 87)
Wiesbaden, Germany
Director
Writer
Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. In 1991, he was the Head of the Jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Schlöndorff has adapted many literary works for his movies, including some critically well-received US productions, but he is also engaged in post-war German politics. He served as the chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg. Schlöndorff also teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar. He was married to fellow film director Margarethe von Trotta from 1971 to 1991. He is currently married to Angelika Schlöndorff, and the couple has one daughter.
Known For
Filmography
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★ 6.8
Visitation
2026 Director
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★ 7.1
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2023 Self
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La croce e la svastica
2022 Self
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★ 6.9
Der Waldmacher
2021 Director
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Zeitzeugengespräch
2021 Director
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★ 7.3
Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020 Self
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★ 7.0
Volker Schlöndorff, tambour battant
2020 Self
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Friedemann Vogel - Verkörperung des Tanzes
2020 Self
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Lotte Eisner: un lieu, une passion
2020 Self
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★ 6.4
Sympathisanten: Unser Deutscher Herbst
2018 Self
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★ 5.9
Return to Montauk
2017 Director
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★ 6.1
The Nameless Day
2017 Director
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★ 5.8
CinéKino
2017 Self
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★ 8.0
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016 Self
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Töne bedeuten mir mehr als Worte - Klaus Doldinger
2016 Self
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Le Poête et le Cinéaste: Volker Schlöndorff à propos de 'Baal'
2015 Self
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Arthur Miller - Ein ehrgeiziges Herz
2015 Self
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★ 7.1
Diplomacy
2014 Director
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★ 7.3
From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses
2014 Self
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★ 3.5
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014 Director
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Bewegte Republik Deutschland
2014 Self
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A.M.P.A.S. Tribute Film: Jean Claude Carriere
2014 Self
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Le Cinéma fait le Mur
2014 Actor
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★ 7.8
Die Rebellen von Oberhausen
2012 Self
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Square
2012 Self
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★ 6.8
Calm at Sea
2011 Director
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★ 6.3
Michael Nyman in Progress
2010 Actor
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★ 6.3
Souvenirs d'une année à Marienbad
2010 Self
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Babelsberg d'est en ouest
2010 Actor
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Wiesbaden - Kaleidoskop einer Stadt
2010 Self
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Skådeplats Europa
2008 Self
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Bauer sucht Kultur - Unterwegs mit Dieter Moor
2008 Self
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★ 6.7
Ulzhan
2007 Director
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★ 6.2
In the Tracks Of
2007 Self
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★ 6.8
Strike
2006 Director
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★ 7.5
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006 Director
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★ 6.7
Louis Malle - Un cinéaste français
2006 Self
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Katja Riemann
2006 Self
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★ 6.1
Enigma - Eine uneingestandene Liebe
2005 Director
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★ 6.1
Von Sex bis Simmel
2005 Self
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★ 5.9
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
2005 Self
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Gottschalk meets Petersen
2005 Self
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★ 7.0
The Ninth Day
2004 Director
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★ 6.3
Die Verhoevens
2003 Self
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★ 6.6
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002 Director
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★ 8.5
Double je
2002 Self
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Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
2002 Self
Director
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★ 6.7
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny
2001 Self
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★ 6.9
The Legend of Rita
2000 Director
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★ 4.6
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
2000 Actor
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Never Stop Beginning - The UFA-Star Carola Höhn
2000 Self
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★ 6.1
Palmetto
1998 Director
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★ 6.8
The Ogre
1996 Director
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★ 5.5
Lumière sur un massacre
1996 Director
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★ 8.4
The Michael Nyman Songbook
1992 Director
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★ 6.7
Voyager
1991 Director
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★ 8.0
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1991 Self
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★ 7.8
Filmstunde
1991 Self
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Es wäre besser, ein Anderer zu sein. Die filmischen Spekulationen des Volker Schlöndorff
1991 Self
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★ 6.0
The Handmaid's Tale
1990 Director
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★ 6.5
A Gathering of Old Men
1987 Director
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Ein Aufstand alter Männer
1987 Self
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★ 7.2
Death of a Salesman
1985 Director
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Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
1985 Self
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★ 6.5
Swann in Love
1984 Director
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★ 5.5
Die verflixte 7
1984 Self
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★ 7.1
War and Peace
1982 Director
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★ 7.1
Circle of Deceit
1981 Director
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★ 6.5
Hands Up!
1981 Self
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★ 8.6
Night Flight
1981 Self
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★ 6.5
The Candidate
1980 Director
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★ 7.4
The Tin Drum
1979 Director
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★ 6.8
Germany in Autumn
1978 Director
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★ 7.6
Portrait of Valeska Gert
1977 Actor
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★ 7.0
Coup de Grâce
1976 Director
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★ 7.3
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1975 Director
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★ 7.7
Arena
1975 Director
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De Qui Dépend Que L'Oppression Demeure?
1975 Self
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★ 6.7
Nouvelles d'Henry James
1974 Director
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Stayover in Tirol
1974 Director
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★ 6.9
A Free Woman
1972 Director
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★ 6.7
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
1972 Director
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★ 7.0
Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach
1971 Director
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★ 7.9
Der Paukenspieler
1971 Director
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★ 6.3
Baal
1970 Director
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★ 6.5
Man on Horseback
1969 Director
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★ 4.7
The Lively Arts
1969 Director
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★ 6.0
A Degree of Murder
1967 Director
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★ 6.9
TTT
1967 Self
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Perspektiven
1967 Self
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★ 7.2
Young Törless
1966 Director
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NDF-Report
1966 Self
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★ 7.2
Aspekte
1965 Director
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★ 4.9
Hinter der Leinwand
1961 Self
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Wen kümmert's?
1960 Director
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Lunch with Archer King
Self